Table of Contents

1. Contending approaches; 2. Settling the region; 3. Pacific Edens?; 4. Discovering outsiders; 5. Land, labour and independence; 6. New political orders; 7. Land, labour and dependency; 8. Invention of the native; 9. The war in the Pacific; 10. A nuclear Pacific; 11. The material world re-made; 12. The ideological world re-made; 13. The end of insularity?

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An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.

Reviews

' … this work makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of the Pacific Islands.' University of New South Wales Centre for South Pacific Studies Newsletter